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Here is some general information about Jim Crow Laws: Jim Crow was the name of the racial system which operated primarily in southern states and border states. This racial system occured from the 1870's to the 1960's. The Jim Crow system outlined rigid laws and guide lines for blacks in what they were able and unable to do in society. The Jim Crow system of these guidelines varied from state to state and they effected African Americans daily life ranging from birth to death. http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm Matt F.

Everything was unfair for the black people in America. There were so many segregation rules that u had to follow. If u were black you couldn’t walk into a white place. There were always signs showing what was for the white people and what was for the black people. You would never find a white person in a place a black place, but nothing would probably happen to them if they did. It was rare that a black person would be found in a white person's place, most were afraid of what might happen to them. Everyone followed these laws because whites hated the blacks and most blacks didn't want to have to deal with the whites. The fact that everything was segregated wasn’t the worst part. The worst part of all of these things were the places for black people were in such bad condition, but the places for white people were very nice. These pictures show some of the signs and places that told the black people where they could and couldn't go. [||F.?[[http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/jim_crow_guide/images/water_fountain.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/jim_crow_guide/intro.htm&h=206&w=263&sz=15&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=t1pRKRA3aHadMM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=112&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djim%2Bcrow%2Blaws%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1|]

Jim Crow: Jim Crow was not a real man he was a character in a song. Many people had thought that Jim Crow was a real man but he was not. Jim Crown was a made up character. As you can see in the picture below, Jim Crown is not wealthy, looks dirty and beyond poor. Thats what many people thought of black people they also thought they were uneducated. This picture portrays many of these characteristics. Jim Crow laws were a simple way of keeping blacks and whites seperated. In the pictures above you calso can see that whites and blacks had diffrent theatres, drinking fountains and also had diffrent waiting rooms. Blacks were very disturbed byt these rules and disagreed with them but many whites did not care and liked the segregation and wanted to keep it this way. < Jim Crow Jocelyn B

mike O

//__general information:__// -The jim crow laws were laws that required seperation between white and black people in Amercia .They started in the 1880s and ended around the 1950s-1960s( or with the beging of the civil rights movement )


 * When were they passed:** Jim crow laws werent passed untill 1888.It started off in louisiana but it soon became popular and spred to many other southern states.

The relationship wasd completly direct, infact the laws were the cause of the two cases.because many people of all races (mostly black) protested on how the laws didnt show equallityto all men.
 * What were the jim crow laws relationship with Plessy vs. Ferguson, and brown vs. Board of Education:**

As you most likely Know by now jim crow was not a real person, but a charecter in a famous song. At the time "jim crow was a way of seperating blacks.(The word was quivilent with segregation)
 * Why did they call the laws jim crow laws:**

This is a web site that helped me recived some information on jim crow laws //:http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm//